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Calatrava to Design Campus Building

The University of South Florida Polytechnic is to announce Tuesday that the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and his firm, Santiago Calatrava/Festina Lente, will design the first building for the university’s new campus in Lakeland, Fla., the university said in a news release. Mr. Calatrava, who designed the glass-and-steel transportation hub planned for the former World Trade Center site, will design the university’s science and technology building. The university said this would be Mr. Calatrava’s first design in the Southeastern United States and his first educational structure in this country. Groundbreaking for the work, which will be done in partnership with Alfonso Architects of Tampa, Fla., is expected to take place later this year. The building is expected to cost $45 million, using a combination of private and public funds, and to be opened in 2012.